Isaiah 14:5

The golden one has ceased. YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, || The scepter of rulers.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

In Context

4That you have taken up this allegory || Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, “How the exactor has ceased,

6He who is striking peoples in wrath, || A striking without intermission, || He who is ruling nations in anger, || Pursuing without restraint!

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Cross References

Proverbs 28:15A growling lion, and a ranging bear, || [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.

Isaiah 9:4Because the yoke of its burden, || And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, || You have broken as [in] the day of Midian.

Isaiah 14:29“Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, || That the rod of your striker has been broken, || For from the root of a serpent comes out a viper, || And its fruit [is] a flying, burning serpent.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:5-24

The Doom of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of… Read the whole commentary →

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